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None, Fincher or Boyle FTW. Were talking Fight Club and 28 days later people, when did directors of these types of movies EVER get the ability to maybe win an oscar or some shit. NEVER

The best directors get robbed its obvious. Hitchcock, Kubrick, etc, maybe they shouldn't win. Maybe Scorcese shouldn't have won. It looked kinda pathetic finally giving him credit for Taxi driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas, the much better films that he should have won credit for years ago.



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I saw The Wrestler. My guess is that either that actor who plays Nixon in Frost/Nixon or Mickey Rourke will win the Best Actor Oscar. The actor who played Nixon gave a better performance, IMO.

Arronofsky might get nominated for Best Director, though I doubt he will win. My guess is either Gus Van Sant (least likely), David Fincher (my pick for winner), or Ron Howard will win it.



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Saw Doubt and Burn After Reading.

Doubt was just a performance piece. Great acting but was dull for the kind of movie I wanted/expected. Burn After Reading was great the 2nd time I watched it. I caught everything I missed the 1st time. The scriptwriters of that movie are the same from the LadyKillers and Oh Brother Where Art Thou. All great, strange movies.

I want to see the Curious Case of Benjamin Button though.



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Bursche said:
Saw Doubt and Burn After Reading.

Doubt was just a performance piece. Great acting but was dull for the kind of movie I wanted/expected.
Burn After Reading was great the 2nd time I watched it. I caught everything I missed the 1st time. The scriptwriters of that movie are the same from the LadyKillers and Oh Brother Where Art Thou. All great, strange movies.

I want to see the Curious Case of Benjamin Button though.

I pretty much agree, though I still enjoyed it.  Its a lot like a play (not surprisingly, it was adapted from a play).  You have relatively long scenes that are long on dialog and lower in terms of action.

It does hold your interest though, and I think the movie is definitely a healthy 7 or an 8 out of 10.  Closer to 8 for me since the performances were great and I loved all the specific actors.

One of the nicest things about this year's movies is that they are all really different from each other.  I mean even between Frost/Nixon, Benjamin Button, Doubt, The Wrestler, and Milk you have a lot of variety.  Milk and Frost/Nixon are probably the most similar since they are both pretty political and are pseudo-documentaries, but even still they are very different films.

 



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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

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akuma587 said:
I saw The Wrestler. My guess is that either that actor who plays Nixon in Frost/Nixon or Mickey Rourke will win the Best Actor Oscar. The actor who played Nixon gave a better performance, IMO.

Arronofsky might get nominated for Best Director, though I doubt he will win. My guess is either Gus Van Sant (least likely), David Fincher (my pick for winner), or Ron Howard will win it.

Yeah I just saw the Wrestler also. Great flick. It's in my top three for the year. I have to agree that Frank Langhella deserves the Oscar over Rourke, but not by much.

As far as Best Director goes, I think Danny Boyle deserves it, but I haven't seen Benjamin Button yet, so I'll reserve final judgement.

 



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Onyxmeth said:
akuma587 said:
I saw The Wrestler. My guess is that either that actor who plays Nixon in Frost/Nixon or Mickey Rourke will win the Best Actor Oscar. The actor who played Nixon gave a better performance, IMO.

Arronofsky might get nominated for Best Director, though I doubt he will win. My guess is either Gus Van Sant (least likely), David Fincher (my pick for winner), or Ron Howard will win it.

Yeah I just saw the Wrestler also. Great flick. It's in my top three for the year. I have to agree that Frank Langhella deserves the Oscar over Rourke, but not by much.

As far as Best Director goes, I think Danny Boyle deserves it, but I haven't seen Benjamin Button yet, so I'll reserve final judgement.

 

Danny Boyle has a shot at it, I'm sure he'll get nominated.

 



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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

I've seen Milk.. which was an awesome movie in every way.. Planning on seeing Benjamin Button. Are there any of the others from the list you'd recommend?

 



Really they are all worth seeing, but if I were to strongly recommend any (besides Benjamin Button, which has been my favorite) they would be Burn After Reading, Frost/Nixon, Doubt, and The Wrestler.

I have yet to see Slumdog Millionaire.



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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

akuma587 said:
Really they are all worth seeing, but if I were to strongly recommend any (besides Benjamin Button, which has been my favorite) they would be Burn After Reading, Frost/Nixon, Doubt, and The Wrestler.

I have yet to see Slumdog Millionaire.

I can vouch for Slumdog Millionaire. It's also very well liked by people of different movie watching tastes as I've seen from everyone I've lent it to. They all loved it.

 



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